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Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

ALBERT LATHAM, or BEVERLY, asshc mnn'rs, T0 UNITED snon MACHINERY SEY, A conroan'rron or NEW JERSEY. I

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" Application filed August 13, 1917.- Serial No. 185,952.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known'that' I, ALBERT citizen of the United States, Beverly, in the county of Essex and of Massachusetts, have provements in Work of which the following descriptiomin connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like referencecharacters LATHAM, a

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This invention relates to worksupports and in particular to work tion with lasts ofspec1al types, particularly hinge and separable lasts.

Lasts of the former type are made with a positive lock holding-the forepart and This lock can be collapsed and removed from the shoe, and access to it is difiicultwhen' the last is in the shoe. i Lasts of the latter, type are sometimes so constructed that the ably while the forepart is in the shoe. The removal of the heel partof-such a last is,

however, troublesome, owing to the cramped situation in which the operator 1s obliged to work. Moreover, a shoe with the "'fore'part of a last remaining in it is hard tohandle in later operations, and part itself has been attended -with some difficulty heretofore owing to lack of appropriate means for handling it.

provide simple, cheap and efficient mean for handling lasts of the types mentioned.

An important feature of the invention consists in a work support adapted to support a separable last and to unlock the bonding mechanism thereof to permit the removal of the heel part while the forepart remains in the shoe. The last illustrated is not only separable but hinged and my novel work support co-operates with the bonding mechanism in such manner as ble the collapse of the last.

Another feature of the invention consists in a work support having means for supporting a detached last forepart. facilitates the handling of the shoe after the heel part has been removed, and simplifies residing at invented =certain Im- I Supports and Lasts,"

frequently and a worksupport. heel part in'extended "position. mu'st be thrown before thelast I heel part can be removed 7 from the forepart, this being done prefer the removal of the foreto make possi This feature HUSETTQS, Assmma; Biz; Mas r. ASSIGN oonrona'rron', or rA'rEnsoN, NEW Lina the operation of removing the forepart it- Y W 2 1155 :These androther featuresof the invention self from the shoeplw comprising-avarious arrangements and com-l 'binatlons of parts,{will be' understoodifrom I the following desciiptioniofsa preferred embodiment of the invention .in connection wlth the separable hingelast shownF-inomy 1 copending application, Serial 'No. 53,959,

filed Oct. 4 1915. The particular'work sup A lportskand last shown are selected only for purposes of illustration and the scope of supports in connectheappendedclaimsisnot to belimited to i to the specific apparatus described.

In-rthe drawings: vF-igJ lt shows a side elevation of a last -Fig.-;3 shows thejlast forepart on itsisup borti i a Fig. port.-

4; is a perspective of the forepartlsup- I Fig. 5 showsthehead of the support shown Fig.6 shows the rear portion of the last bondlng mechanism; and

F1g7 shows the fore ing mechanlsm.

The last sho Fig. 2 shows the last in collapsed position. I,

I portion of this bond- I w n will described. i A forepart 10 of the lastkhas" mounted in it three headedpins ll; The forepart' is,

recessed at 12'and still deeper recessed at 13 and the pins 11 have their-headsprotecto ing just beyond the backs of these-recesses. I The lower part of the'forepart is cut off at It is the general object of my inventlon to a an angle to the back of the lower'recess at 14:. Theheel part 15 has its front surface exactly with the three beveled straight a'cross'on thesam'e slant as u The plate 1'? has mounted upon rear I 12 and i then shpped downward to engage the heads of the pins 11 in the'notches 19 and 21.

1,448,070 I i V 8 the said objects being provided With inter: interlocking member on a heel part similar locking mechanism comprising a headed pin to the interlocking member on the Work on one of said objects and a corresponding support to hold the fore'part in extended re- 10; slot upon the other of said objects to enable lati'on relatively to the heel part. the Work support to support the forepart, In testimony whereof I have signed my said interlocking member on the forepart name to this specification.

being also arranged to cooperate With an ALBERT LATHAM. 

